yeah, but he was an actual judge. i think the case of having no background as an actual judge pretty much negates or even slightly outweighs the "constitutional scholar" honorific.

Historically I don't think that's uncommon at all. There is currently at least one first-time justice, and I'm pretty sure she never taught the subject at Harvard and was never the first black president. I don't think Rehnquist was either.

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yeah, but he was an actual judge. i think the case of having no background as an actual judge pretty much negates or even slightly outweighs the "constitutional scholar" honorific.

There is plenty of precedent for non-judges to be appointed to the court. Something like 40 Justices didn't. Warren didn't. Rehnquist didn't. Being "constitutional scholar" wasn't an honorific, it was his job for over a decade. Being a professor of constitutional law is exactly the type of expertise you'd want in a SCOTUS. and he taught University of Chicago, for christ's sake, not a community college.. That, and his resume as, you know, the president, would make him more than qualified.

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There is plenty of precedent for non-judges to be appointed to the court. Something like 40 Justices didn't. Warren didn't. Rehnquist didn't. Being "constitutional scholar" wasn't an honorific, it was his job for over a decade. Being a professor of constitutional law is exactly the type of expertise you'd want in a SCOTUS. and he taught University of Chicago, for christ's sake, not a community college.. That, and his resume as, you know, the president, would make him more than qualified.

Where he taught as a student teacher.

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I think the main reason that non-judges have lost fashion, over say, Constitutional Law Professors or lawyers that specialize in constitutional law, is the overt politicization of the nomination process. Judges have a clear record of the decisions they've made, that a president can look at, and be assured he is nominating a party hack. No one wants to nominate another Souter these days, thinking they have a conservative justice and then getting the hot dose once they are in office and no way of getting them out.

"We are only wise in knowing that we know nothing"
-Socrates

"Dust. Wind. Dude."
-Ted Theodore Logan

"I'm a basketball player and a businessman, not a Thundercat,"
-Lebron James

3) Not sure why you're so confident it would be a liberal spot opening up. Scalia is 78, Kennedy 77 and Thomas is 66 and could have a heart attack any moment.

Nailed it!

David_Sklansky, on 15 July 2014 - 01:42 PM, said:

I don't know. I would have agreed with you once upon a time. Obviously trying to justify how Obama is not qualified while Brown is would be a lot more public and hilarious than things like the budget which no one actually cares about, but I think the right has kind of settled into a Dog the Bounty Hunter situation. When Dog used the N-word and admitted to his racism, almost everyone thought he was a piece of shit for it. But no one who has a problem with that would watch Dog the Bounty Hunter anyway, so who cares. I think we are past the point where republican voters hold their representatives accountable for anything. The only way that happens is if they cooperate with an actual solution to a problem, in which case they run the risk of getting primaried by a racist dentist who has never held office, or something along those lines.

Also Nailed it!

"We are only wise in knowing that we know nothing"
-Socrates

"Dust. Wind. Dude."
-Ted Theodore Logan

"I'm a basketball player and a businessman, not a Thundercat,"
-Lebron James